Judges
An introduction to the judges of the BIID Interior Design Awards
Angela Bardino
Angela Bardino is a Design Principal at Jacobs leading The Interiors and Insights Team for Europe. Her design experience transcends sectors which include workplace, hospitality, arts, and culture and transport; working for a range of both global and local clients. She has a strong focus on human experience, examining the dynamic between a client’s operational policy and spatial requirements.
Angela is a BIID Registered Interior Designer and part of the Professional Practice & Sustainability Committee. As part of the Jacobs Cities and Places Shadow Leadership team, Angela is helping to shape the business, working to bring “business unusual” to fruition. Passionate about empowering early career interior designers, helping others to forge their own path, and encouraging them to be curious, to challenge tomorrow.
Carole Annett
Carole Annett has been immersed in the world of interior design for over 30 years, first as a writer at House and Garden magazine and latterly as Interiors Editor of Country & Town House.
She is a contributor to Times Radio and hosts the House Guest podcast interviewing people in the industry who are involved in creating houses and hotels and everything inside that makes them beautiful to live in.
Katrina Burroughs
Katrina works across The Times and The Sunday Times as interiors editor, and has written a design trends column for the Home section for over a decade. Her first editing job was at a magazine about stolen art, and she subsequently wrote for the Evening Standard and the FT’s How to Spend It.
Asif Din
Asif is Director of Regenerative Design at Perkins & Will. He has raised the profile of carbon proficiency in the practice which includes a costed Zero Carbon Report at the end of concept design for all architectural projects. He has been advocating the use of circularity in design and as part of interiors and hospitality provides a Life Cycle Analysis for all projects and a roadmap to achieving full circularity by 2030. He has also been involved in expanding the environmental remit within designs as part of the 'Living Design' initiative utilising a multivalent approach rather than singular metrics.
Asif is an Architect with over 20 years' experience in delivering Zero Carbon design projects. Notably BedZED and Jubilee Wharf in Penryn, Cornwall. He has worked in the UK and abroad in China and the Middle East. He has a PhD in Life Cycle design of buildings from Cass School of Art and Design at LMU.
Jonathan Grove
As the Head of Store Design for Selfridges, Jonathan leads a team of 15, delivering over 250 projects per year across the stores.
His key responsibilities include leading master planning projects and feasibility studies. He collaborates with leading creatives, brands, and designers to develop the stores, with the goal of pushing the boundaries of retail design experience and excellence.
Jonathan has a keen eye for detail, scale, and materiality, and is consistently intrigued by new thoughts, ideas, and processes. Always seeking innovation, and open to both challenge and being challenged, he finds joy in creating the extraordinary.
Harsha Kotak
Founder of Women in Office Design, is an international Interior Designer and workplace consultant. With a lifelong passion for design, Harsha has worked in the workplace design industry for over 20 years and has practiced in the US, India and the UK. Her portfolio of work displays a variety of projects showcasing her expertise in Design & Client Management. She has worked on some prestigious projects like designing for the White House and Pentagon in the US, and for FedEx and US Embassy in New Delhi, India. Harsha is a workplace projects consultant with K2 Space in London and is responsible for helping their global clients from the finance, tech & media sector.
Having worked on various prestigious projects worldwide, in 2018 Harsha united her global network to create the organisation WOD (Women in Office Design). WOD provides a dedicated platform for women to attend events, share ideas and connect with others in the design community.
Paul Moody
Paul Moody works as the Global Digital and Marketing Director for Havwoods wood flooring. With a degree in Design, Paul joined the Havwoods team in 2017 heading the company’s digital and marketing development. With a keen eye on design within the flooring industry in particular, Paul spends a lot of his time in understanding the latest trends and designs available, as well as working on all aspects of sustainability. Paul says: ‘It is a true honour for me to be part of the BIID Interior Design Awards panel and I hope to be able to learn a few things along the way.’
Kate Sanders
Kate is an architect and a Partner at Purcell, with over 25 years’ experience working with a variety of historic building types and in the historic environment. She has worked on significant buildings including museums, galleries and on the Parliamentary Estate. She has led many private residential projects working closely with Interior Designers successfully achieving the overall vision whilst managing the complex co-ordination of structure, building fabric and services.
Her interests lie in design for flexibility in an ever-changing world and the promotion of thinking on sustainability as an inherent part of the design process, she enjoys adapting and upgrading existing buildings to meet modern standards using an informed understanding of the original fabric with an inventive approach to design. She believes that close collaboration with the design team, clients and contractors significantly improves the quality of the project.